Lee Elementary School 3rd graders hear about the amazing world of “plant senses” from Dr. Heidi Appel on September 29th, 2015, tour the Life Sciences Center, and see their own artwork displayed in the lobby. (http://sciartreach.weebly.com/)

Lee Elementary School 3rd graders hear about the amazing world of “plant senses” from Dr. Heidi Appel on September 29th, 2015, tour the Life Sciences Center, and see their own artwork displayed in the lobby. (http://sciartreach.weebly.com/)

Clayton Coffman’s Defense on April 21, 2016 at the University of Missouri.

Dhru at the poster session for the Spring undergraduate research programme (April 26, 2016)

Keiran at the poster session for the Spring undergraduate research programme (April 26, 2016)

Nicole and Will at the poster session for the Spring undergraduate research programme (April 26, 2016)

Nicole at the poster session for the Spring undergraduate research programme (April 26, 2016)

Will at the poster session for the Spring undergraduate research programme (April 26, 2016)

Dhru and Heidi at the poster session for the Spring undergraduate research programme (April 26, 2016)

Will, Heidi and Nicole at the poster session for the Spring undergraduate research programme (April 26, 2016)

Jacob, Nicole and Will at the poster session for the Spring undergraduate research programme (April 26, 2016)

Melanie and Dhru at the poster session for the Spring undergraduate research programme (April 26, 2016)

Abdul at the Summer Undergraduate Research Forum (July 28th, 2016)

Abdul at the Summer Undergraduate Research Forum (July 28th, 2016)

Abdul at the Summer Undergraduate Research Forum (July 28th, 2016)

Kira at the Summer Undergraduate Research Forum (July 28th, 2016)

Kira at the Summer Undergraduate Research Forum (July 28th, 2016)

Kira at the Summer Undergraduate Research Forum (July 28th, 2016)

Lex at the Summer Undergraduate Research Forum (July 28th, 2016)

Lex at the Summer Undergraduate Research Forum (July 28th, 2016)

Lex at the Summer Undergraduate Research Forum (July 28th, 2016)

Dr. Jack Schultz speaking at the Science Cafe, Columbia MO

Dhru presenting his results at the Arabivibe Summit on January 22, 2017

Tessa presenting her results at the Arabivibe Summit on January 22, 2017

Lex presenting her results at the Arabivibe Summit on January 22, 2017

Will presenting his results at the Arabivibe Summit on January 22, 2017

Sabrina presenting her results at the Arabivibe Summit on January 22, 2017

Abdul presenting his results at the Arabivibe Summit on January 22, 2017

Arabivibe crew at the Arabivibe Summit on January 22, 2017 (from left to right: [front row] Tessa and Abdul, [back row] Sabrina, Dhru, Rex, Heidi, Will and Lex.

Melanie presenting her poster at the Gordon Research Conferences on Plant-Herbivore Interactions

Will presenting his poster about the impact of caterpillar feeding vibrations on plant volatile emission during Life Science Week 2017

Tessa presenting her poster about plant defenses against butterfly eggs during Life Science Week 2017

Shreya presenting her poster about the role of phytohormones in gall induction success during Life Science Week 2017

Jacob presenting his poster about the role of auxin in the leaf bend that occurs during the first stage of gall initiation during Life Science Week 2017

Lex presenting her poster about how plants respond to feeding vibrations from different herbivore species during Life Science Week 2017

Abdul presenting his poster about the role of trichomes in plant perception of herbivory vibrations during Life Science Week 2017

Alexander Jurkevich, associate director of MU’s Cytology Core, discusses the core’s annual image contest with an attendee of #LSW2017 on Monday, April 10 at Bond Life Sciences Center. Each year, Missouri Life Sciences Week attendees vote on their favorite photos and renderings of cells from a selection of the year’s best images captured by the core. Photo by Eleanor Hasenbeck | Bond LSC

Tessa Foti, an undergraduate studying biological sciences, explains her research in plant’s biological defense against predators at Thursday’s poster session, part of #LSW2017. Photo by Eleanor Hasenbeck, Bond LSC.

Many years studying defenses in trees that are induced by insects made us realize that such dynamic behaviors are transcriptionally controlled. Lacking genomic tools for working with most trees (at […]